Adobe Animate CC lets you create vector animations, advertisements, multimedia content, immersive experiences, applications, games, and more, in a timeline-based authoring environment. Animate offers native support for multiple outputs such as HTML5 Canvas and WebGL, and is extensible to support custom formats such as SnapSVG.

Animate’s flexibility with output formats ensure that your content can be viewed anywhere, without the need for plug-ins.

Animate also offers best in class drawing and illustration tools and powerful integration with Adobe CreativeSync. As Animate CC is part of Adobe Creative Cloud, you get access to all the latest updates and future releases the moment they’re available.

Adobe Animate CC 2015.2 - August 2016 release

The August update of Animate CC 2015.2 offers you Google font support in HTML canvas, extra brush sizes, new .APR publish profile format, changes to zoom behavior in the timeline, and enhancements to onion skin range markers. Read on to learn more about the features included in this release.

Google font support for HTML canvas documents

New in Animate CC 2015.2 | August 2016

When animators use desktop fonts to create and publish their outputs, end-user experience is skewed and inconsistent. Animate 2015.2 release supports addition of Google fonts to your web content and provides a consistent end-user experience across all form factors.

New publish profile format

New in Animate CC 2015.2 | August 2016

When Animate CC introduced the ability to create templates, animators created custom templates for web advertisements and generic web content with its in-built publish profile settings. Due to inherent limitations, animators were unable to share their templates with their publish profile settings and the templates were shared separately or used a .fla as a template instead.

From this release, Animate CC introduces support for. APR file format that lets you bundle the canvas publish template along with its publish profile settings. Going forward, any new asset linked to a publish profile is bundled and shared as well.

Improved resize timeline view

Enhancements to onion skin range markers

Enhanced in Adobe Animate CC 2015.2 | August 2016

In previous releases of Animate CC, the range markers were dragged to move the onion skin ranges. From this release, you can use the Shift key and drag the range markers or the loop range using either of the markers across the Timeline.

Additional option to create a key frame

To automatically create a keyframe, click and hold the in-between object that is part of a classic tween.

Adobe Animate CC 2015.2 - June 2016 release

The 2015.2 release introduced exciting new features such as:

Pattern brushes

Frame picker

Layer transparency

Improved web publishing options

Merging JSON/JS code

Embed JavaScript into HTML

Support for transparent canvas background

HiDPI compatible HTML5 canvas output

Responsive scaling

Transparent and responsive OAMs

Author-time bitmap snapping

Preloader

HTML5 canvas publish template improvements

JSAPI support to import and export HTML templates for canvas documents

Publish canvas assets to root folder

Center stage

Other enhancements

User-defined colored onion skinning

Pinscript

Advanced PSD import options

Advanced AI import options

Turbo charged performance on windows platform

Improved paint brush interactions

Latest flash player and AIR SDK integration

Pattern brushes

New in Animate CC 2015.2 | June 2016

Learn how to use Pattern brushes to paint a vector pattern along the path or stretch to its entire length. Use the integrated global library within Animate to use Art and Pattern brushes. In addition to the default brush presets, you can import new Pattern Brushes to your Animate document using the CC Libraries.

Frame picker

New in Animate CC 2015.2 | June 2016

Use frame picker to visually preview and choose the first frame for a graphic symbol. In previous releases, you could not preview the frames without getting within the symbol. This feature enhances the user experience for animation workflows such as Lip Syncing.

Support for transparent canvas background

New in Animate CC 2015.2 | June 2016

Want to create a transparent canvas during publishing to view the underlying HTML content? You can now set the canvas background to transparent. To do so, use the Alpha % to set the transparency level and the No Color swatch option to completely set the canvas stage to transparent.

Transparent and responsive OAMs

Author-time bitmap snapping

New in Animate CC 2015.2 | June 2016

Learn how to snap the bitmaps to the nearest pixels during author-time so that they look sharper on canvas. In previous releases, the bitmaps blurred on the canvas and did not provide an optimum user experience. From this release onwards, when publishing an HTML canvas document, Animate ensures that the bitmaps are snapped to the nearest pixels so that they look sharper on the canvas.

Preloader in HTML5 canvas

New in Animate CC 2015.2 | June 2016

Preloader is an animated GIF which is displayed when the scripts and assets required to render an animation is loading. Once the assets are loaded, the preloader is hidden and the actual animation is displayed.

Other enhancements

User-defined colored onion skinning

Enhanced in Adobe Animate CC 2015.2 | June 2016

Use customized onion skinning color coding to help you distinguish between the past, present, and future frames. Onion skin frames that move away from active frame appear with progressively decreasing transparency.

Pinscript

Enhanced in Adobe Animate CC 2015.2 | June 2016

Use the Pin Script feature to pin tabs of individual scripts in the Actionscript pane and move them accordingly. This feature is useful if you have not organized the code within your FLA file into one central location or if you are using multiple scripts. You can pin a script to retain the open location of the code in the Actions panel and toggle between the open scripts.

Advanced PSD import options

Enhanced in Adobe Animate CC 2015.2 | June 2016

Animate can import still images in many formats, but you usually use the native Photoshop PSD format when importing still images from Photoshop into Animate. When importing a PSD file, Animate preserves many of the attributes that were applied in Photoshop and provides options to maintain the visual fidelity of the image.

Advanced AI import options

Enhanced in Adobe Animate CC 2015.2 | June 2016

Animate lets you import Adobe® Illustrator® AI files and preserve most of the editability and visual fidelity of your artwork. Enhanced AI Importer also provides you with a great degree of control in determining how your Illustrator artwork is imported into Animate and lets you specify how to import specific objects into an AI file.

Improved paint brush interactions

Enhanced in Adobe Animate CC 2015.2| June 2016

Animate introduces enhanced performance and experience when using paint brush strokes. Paint brush performance enhancements are applicable for transform operations on paint brush strokes such as scale/translate/rotate in addition to zoom/pan of stage.

Latest Flash player and AIR SDK integration

Enhanced in Adobe Animate CC 2015.2 | June 2016

Animate supports the latest version of Flash Player (version 21) and integrates AI SDK version 21.0.

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